Ageing Hollywood star Marshall Stone is scared. Scared that the parts are drying up. Scared of being forgotten. So when he hears...

January 1942. Rommel's troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to...

With the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the events that have turned his life upside...

Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The...

Moses thinks he's got it made. Originally a poor Caribbean immigrant, he is now the proud landlord of a ramshackle house in...

Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London...

It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric...

'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the...

It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for...

'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his...

On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital...

On 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still...

Sukey Bond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is sent to work as a servant at a farm on the remote Essex Marshes. There she falls in...

Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and...

Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped?...

Horace Rumpole is in a strange state that could only be described as a kind of air-conditioned purgatory: he has retired to...

Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from...

On a foggy winter's evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually...

Two people who didn't know each other and who had come together by a miracle in the great city, and who now clung desperately to...

Joseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret. As he...

Filip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew. All he has is two of...

Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London...

The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them,...

It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with...

'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from...

'It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign'

Just as...

Tayo, a young Second World War veteran of mixed ancestry, is coming home. But, returning to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, he...

'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy either'

Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to...

Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own....

A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery

'It was a puzzle with no solution....